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28 Days Later

2002 · TMDB 7.2

Directed by Danny Boyle

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

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Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's infection spreads through blood and speed, but the film's real subject is the emptiness of England: motorways, tower blocks, a petrol station with no attendant. Cillian Murphy's Jim wakes into a country where the infrastructure has outlived the peop...

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